Die Nibelungen

German cinema, which was highly influential in the era of silent movies, provided some original scores. Fritz Lang's movies Die Nibelungen (1924) and Metropolis (1927) were accompanied by original full scale orchestral and leitmotific...

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...accompanying the film in major theatres. The music was composed by Gottfried Huppertz, who had composed the original scores for Lang's Die Nibelungen films in 1924. For Metropolis Huppertz composed a leitmotific orchestral score which...

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...can be found in European films. Influential European films included Fritz Lang's two-film series Die Nibelungen: Siegfrieds Tod and Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache (1924), Sergei Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky '' (1938) and Ingmar Bergman's...

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...) and special effects for various feature films - most famously a silhouette falcon for a dream sequence in Part One of Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen). During this period she became the centre of a large group of ambitious German...

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...as theatrical actor. In 1922, he returned as actor in several German movies, especially in Fritz Lang's 1924 silent masterpiece Die Nibelungen with Rittner starring as Markgraf Rudiger von Bechlarn. When he died in 1943, Rittner left two...

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...for setting the basis for the authorised restoration of silent films like Metropolis '', '' M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Morder '' and ''Die Nibelungen, all directed by Fritz Lang. Patalas has a reputation of being one of the world's most famous...

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...Mann, Tartuff, Faust) and Walter Rohrig (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, Tartuff, Faust). The cinematographer was Gunther Rittau (Die Nibelungen, Metropolis, Der blaue Engel). Asphalt was premiered on March 11, 1929 at Berlin's...

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...is a series of two silent fantasy films created by Austrian director Fritz Lang in 1924 : Die Nibelungen: Siegfried and Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge. They were co-written by his then-wife Thea von Harbou, based upon the epic poem...

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...necessities. Similarly, Fancy's socially destructive fidelity to herself evokes memories of Margarete Schon's Kriemhild in Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924), whose final vengeful destruction seems to persist beyond...

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A transformation sequence from Die Nibelungen: Sigfried (silent movie by Fritz Lang). == Fair use for Image in Die Nibelungen == Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because: The...

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